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WFP chief puts hold on Sudan aid operations, following death of 3 staff in unrest

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home WFP chief puts hold on Sudan aid operations, following death of 3 staff in unrest 16 April 2023 © UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran World Food Programme (WFP) staff members load bags of split yellow peas onto a truck in a WFP warehouse based in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. The World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily halted all operations, as a result of the fighting between rival…

First Person: Keeping memories of genocide victims alive

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Keeping memories of genocide victims alive 15 April 2023 UN News/Florence Westergard Immaculée Songa, she lost her husband and two daughters in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Immaculée Songa survived the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, but her husband and two daughters, as well as many relatives and friends, were killed. At the launch of a UN…

UN chief and officials condemn fighting between Sudanese forces

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief and officials condemn fighting between Sudanese forces 15 April 2023 UN News/Abdelmonem Makki Khartoum, Sudan (file) Following reports of armed fighting in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Saturday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the UN Mission in the country, issued statements on Saturday strongly condemning the violence, as other senior officials voiced…

World Chagas Day calls for primary health care to track ‘silent’ disease

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World Chagas Day calls for primary health care to track ‘silent’ disease 14 April 2023 © CDC/James Gathany The “kissing bug”, so named because it bites the lips of sleeping humans, can transfer Chagas disease. Early screening can make Chagas a disease of the past, said UNITAID, a global agency hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the occasion of World Chagas Disease Day,…

Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Odlyn Joseph A woman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, carries water she has bought from a local trader. The UN and partners are appealing for $720 million to support more than three million people in Haiti, where gangs, hunger, and cholera have plunged nearly half the population into humanitarian…

Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war 14 April 2023 © WFP/Mohammed Awadh The Al Gahmalyya neighbourhood in Taiz City, Yemen, has been severely damaged as a result of years of conflict. As a major exchange of prisoners linked to Yemen’s longstanding war began on Friday, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg urged the warring sides to continue their…

Chad: Aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Chad: Aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Riccardo Gangale Women bring their children to a community malnutrition screening in Nokou, Chad. A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in Chad facing hunger in the coming months, UN agencies said on Friday…

‘It can happen anywhere’: General Assembly reflects on Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home ‘It can happen anywhere’: General Assembly reflects on Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 14 April 2023 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) and other participants light candles at the UN General Assembly event commemorating the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Hate speech is an alarm bell – the louder it rings,…

Conflict in NE Nigeria still affects children 9 years after Chibok girls ‘nightmare’: UNICEF

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Conflict in NE Nigeria still affects children 9 years after Chibok girls ‘nightmare’: UNICEF 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson The jihadist group responsible for kidnapping school girls in Chibok, Boko Haram, has attacked communities in and around Maiduguri (pictured). Nearly a decade after Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from their dormitory in Chibok, northeast Nigeria…

Religious leaders join UN in praying for peace – ‘our most precious goal’

2 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Religious leaders join UN in praying for peace – ‘our most precious goal’ 14 April 2023 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Secretary-General António Guterres addresses attendees to the Interfaith Moment of Prayer for Peace at UN Headquarters. At a time of terrible divisions in the world, leaders from multiple faiths joined together at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday to observe a moment of…